THE PRESIDENT'S INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST 2 NOVEMBER 1962

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005996016
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 2, 1962

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THE PRESIDENT'S
INTELLIGENCE CHECKLIST
ISSUED BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
2 NOVEMBER 1962
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1. Cuba
missile
sites
a. Yesterday's photography shows
the offensive missile sites being closed
down and the equipment removed.
b. The missiles and basic launch-
ing equipment have been removed from
all of the MRBM launch areas; C2171011?
nage has been taken down, and support
vehicles are assembled for movement.
c. Construction at the IRBM
sites has stopped,and some of the
installations at Guanajay have been
destroyed. Work on the probable nuclear
warhead bunkers has also ceased.
d. Further progress was noted,
however, in assembly of IL-28 bombers
at San Julian airfield.
2. Cuba a. Both Castro and his speech
last night were below par.
b. Castro was nervous and hesi-
tant during the major part of the talk
devoted to reading from a transcript
of his meetings with U Thant and to
rationalizing the removal of the
missile bases.
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c. He acknowledged that the
Soviet decision to remove the strategic
missiles "gave us some reason for
discontent." But, he said, Cuba
respected the decision "since these
weapons were not under our command."
He added, Cuba and the USSR are
still friends, and differences would
be ironed out "in the light of reason
and principle" since the important
fact is "we are Marxist-Leninists."
d. He emphasized Cuba was not
being disarmed inasmuch as all but
the strategic weapons would remain.
"Some time ago," he said, the USSR
had cancelled Cuban arms debts.
e. Castro reiterated his five
demands for assuring Cuba's security,
stressing particularly the need to
evacuate Guantanamo.
f. Interestingly, the chief of
Cuba's Prensa Latina bureau at the
UN says that Castro's demand for
evacuation of Guantanamo was "for
the historical record" only, and
the real Cuban need is for normali-
zation of economic relations with
the US.
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attest to a continuing
decline in Soviet and Cuban prestige
among Latin American and pro-Castro
groups as a result of the events of
the past week0
j. the mood
of the Cuban people are agreed that
pessimism and depression prevail.
1. Through it all, we have
noted only minor, scattered sabotage
activity..
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3. Cuba-- a. We think the return of
bloc offensive weapo s and support equip.=.
shipping ment to the USSR will require some
twenty to twenty-five ships. Five
to eight of these must have special
hatches to accommodate the surface-
to-surface missiles.
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4. Cuba -
Communist
China
b. Support from the Chinese
may turi, out to be more than hot
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5. USSR
a. Another multiple missile
launching involving a nuclear detona-
tion/
I zoccurred yesterday.
b. This is the third test in
the past ten days of what we believe
to be nuclear effects on elements of
anti-missile systems.
d. Two nuclear tests in the
atmosphere were carried out yesterday;
lat Semipalatinsk,
at
and the other
Novaya Zemlya.
e. After three previous failures
(one list week and two last year) the
Soviets managed to eject a Mars probe
Into trajectory yesterday.
f. If successful, it will arrive
next June in the vicinity of Mars
where, Moscow says, it is to take
pictures of Mars' surface and relay
them to earth.
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6. USSR ?
a. We now have firmer word
that the forthcoming Soviet party
plenum will examine "all means of
improving the performance of
industry, including the Liberman
proposals."
c. Presumably to prepare the
way for this meeting, we have
noted the publication late in
September of a previously unknown
draft of Lenin's Immediate Tasks
of the Soviet Government.
d. The thesis of this work
is that the USSR must use the
experience of capitalist countries
and adopt efficient production
methods developed in the West.
e. These include greater
autonomy for factories, piece-
work incentives, employment of
Western experts as consultants
and managers,and the organization
of labor on the basis of "scientific
management principles."
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7. Yemen
8, West Germany
c. Reports out of Cairo are
that UAR Marshal Amer's trip to
Yemen last week was occasioned by
grumbling among Egyptian officers
there over the mounting number of
casualties to UAR troops.
d. We have no good information
on casualties yet, but fighting is
getting hotter in the north.
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9. Cambodia -
South Vietnam
a. New incidents along the
Cambodia-South Vietnam border have
brought the two countries to the
edge of a break in relations.
b. Cambodia charges that two
South Vietnamese planes strafed a
Cambodian border village last week,
killing several people. This
incident prompted Cambodia's "second
warning"--a reference to Sihanouk's
statement in September that he would
tolerate only two more South Viet-
namese acts of aggression before
breaking relations.
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c. In a subsequent incident,
two intruding Cambodian planes were
fired on and chased back by South
Vietnamese fighters.
d. These are the first air
encounters in the long history of
border trouble between the two
countries.
e. They will make Sihanouk
even more determined to obtain
an international commitment to
guarantee Cambodia's territorial
integrity and neutrality.
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10. Laos
e. Phoumi is pretty
well convinced now that the Pathet
Lao have no interest in the coalition
government or a unified Laos. He
feels they are only waiting for a
pretext to enable them to blame
himself or Souvanna for a breakup
of the coalition.
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